In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Gayton like this:
GAYTON, a township in Heswall parish, Cheshire; on the estuary of the Dee, at a ferry to Flintshire, 3 miles NW by N of Great Neston. Acres, 2, 075; of which 1, 235 are water. Real property, £1, 116. Pop., 193. Houses, 31. Gayton Hall belonged to the Baskervilles, and passed to the Gleggs.
Gayton through time
Gayton is now part of Wirral district. Click here for graphs and data of how Wirral has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Gayton itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Gayton, in Wirral and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1886
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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